Lollapalooza Day 1: The Bands

"We had just finished the first song of our set at Pukkelpop when the stage/tent started shaking and simply thought it was a storm passing through. I made a comment about Cheap Trick and we were about to play the next one when our tour manager yelled at me to run off the stage," said Cullen Omori in a statement released through the band's management company. "Right then the tress collapsed... At this point we thought only the stage broke, not the tent.

"After the rescue teams started coming in it became clear that there were severe injuries and we are now being told there are reports of multiple deaths. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families who lost loved ones in today's tragedy," the statement concluded.

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Paige James, the mother of 20-year-old drummer Hal James, said she was told the band was back in their hotel shortly after the incident and was "considerably shaken."

"Their equipment was destroyed," she said, but added she was "very, very grateful that our children weren't hurt."

She said she was feeling a great deal of compassion for those who were injured and killed in the accident.

The band's statement appears to be a repeated apology for a post made to Twitter that was quickly deleted.